Week 12 Fantasy Football Rankings: Updated Top 60 Wide Receivers

Once again, the Broncos will appear on Sunday Night Football except this time it will be on the road in Foxborough in what will be Wes Welker's opportunity to face his former team.

Welker left Sunday's game with a concussion, but he is listed as probable for Sunday night against the Patriots.

Although Welker has yet to reach 100 receiving yards in a game this season (and he has 13 100-yard games in the past two seasons combined), he is having one of his best seasons from a fantasy perspective.

With the exception of Calvin Johnson, no other wide receiver has more receiving touchdowns than Welker, who is also tied with teammate Demaryius Thomas. That said, Welker has only one touchdown in his past four games.

On the other hand, Thomas has been dominant in the past four games.

During that span, DT has 23 receptions for 386 yards and five touchdowns. Not only does he have 100-plus yards in back-to-back games, but he has double-digit fantasy points in each of the past four games.

Through 10 games, he is still on pace to set new career highs of 96 receptions, 1,462 yards and 14 touchdowns after last year's stat line of (his current career highs) 94/1,434/10.

Brown vs. Haden

Not only does Brown currently lead the NFL in receptions (74), but he's already set his career high in the category. In addition, he's averaging 95.2 yards per game, which exceeds his previous career high of 69.3 YPG by a wide margin, and has five touchdowns, which ties his career high.

Brown has been consistent with at least five receptions and 50 yards every week this year, but he's been really good over the past three weeks.

During that span, Brown has three of his four games with double-digit fantasy points on the season. In his past three games, he has a total of 18 receptions for 322 yards and three touchddowns.

Things could get tougher for Brown this week, though.

After five consecutive 100-yard games, Bengals wide receiver A.J. Green was limited to just two receptions for seven yards by Browns cornerback Joe Haden, who also had two "receptions." This week, it will be Steelers receiver Antonio Brown's turn to go against Haden.

While I certainly would not advocate benching Brown considering how well he is playing this season, it's more than possible that he has one of his worst outings of the season with such a tough matchup this week.

Gordon on pace for 70/1,314/7 in 14G

In his eight games since returning from suspension, Browns receiver Josh Gordon has four 100-yard games in his eight games played.

Last week against the Bengals, Gordon had five receptions for 125 yards and a touchdown last week.

Despite having a 100-yard game in half of his outings, Gordon has yet to have 100-plus yards in back-to-back games this season.

Even though he can play no more than 14 games this season, Gordon is on pace for 70 receptions for 1,314 yards and seven touchdowns.

The Steelers have allowed the 11th-most fantasy points to opposing wide receivers this season.